NASA’s head boss (“Administrator” in their lingo) Charles Bolden tells the story of one amazing mathematician who was pivotal to the success of early spaceflight. Katherine Johnson has an amazing faculty for geometry and used those skills to calculate trajectories to the moon and back. The 1960s were an unwelcoming time for many African-American women in the USA, especially in the sciences. Last year, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at age 97.
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